Miscellaneous

February 25, 1986|By Ken Paskman

NEW TRIAL DEMANDED. Attorney General Michael Bowers asked a federal judge in Atlanta for a new trial in the case of Jan Kemp's lawsuit against two University of Georgia officials, charging that the $2.57 million damage award was ''shockingly excessive.'' In a motion for a new trial, Bowers said that the jury in the case was swayed by weeks of evidence on the preferential treatment given to student-athletes at Georgia and that testimony blurred the main issue in the case -- whether Kemp was fired in violation of her First Amendment rights.